sorry for that sentence fragment, but u get the point. ;-P

Solar may be your man when it comes to production and direction, but he's added little to the blueprint already established by Premier. It's upsetting, noticing how each Jazzmatazz album after has gone downhill instrumentally, as more music is being infused with very liberal touches of R&B and an over-reliance on sampling in lieu of live musicians (I still can't get over the theft of an acid jazz classic on Jazzmatazz 2's "Feel the Music). But unless Solar, whose minimal horns and breaks add little to forge past the path laid by Primo, especially since your own arrangements as BaldHead Slick don't require much help, any future endeavor seems like a duplicate of the original formula.

If you don't need the chain & the star, at least it needs you.